The Henriad; a Poem

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ... He died at forty-four, the same age as the Duke de Guise, of a shot from an arquebuse, received in his left shoulder, at the seige of Rouen, where he commanded. His death happened the 17th of November, 1562, the thirty-fifth day of his wound. The uncertainty which he had shown during his life, troubled him in his last moments; and though he had received the sacraments according to the usage of the Romish church, it was doubted whether he did not die a protestant. He had received his mortal blow in the trench, where he had privately retired. So this epitaph was made on him: Ami Francais, le prince ici gisaut Vecut sans gloire, et morut en pisaut. There is one with M. le Laboureur, which resembles this and ends with the same hemistich. M. Jurieu asserts that when Louis, Prince de Conde, was in prison, at Orleans, the king of Navarre, his brother, went to solicit the Cardinal Lorraine, and that he received the king of Navarre, sitting and covered, who addressed him standing and bare-headed. I know not whence M. de Jurieu could discover this fact. (Taken from the edition of 1723.) 14 Louis de Conde, brother of Anthony, king of Navarre, the seventh and last of the children of Charles de Bourbon, Duke de Vendome, was one of those extraordinary men born for misfortune and for the glory of their country. He was for a long time the chief of the reformers, and died, as is known, at Jarnac. He had one arm in a sling on the day of battle. As he was marching towards the enemy, the horse of the Count de Rochefoucauld, his brother-in-law, gave him a kick which bruised his thigh. The prince, without deigning to complain, addressed himself to the gentlemen who accompanied him: "Learn," says he to them, "that unruly horses do more harm than good in an...